Keller Executive Search Case Studies

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Engineering Leadership at an Employee-Owned Defense Hardware Company
Engineering

Engineering Leadership at an Employee-Owned Defense Hardware Company

The successful candidate had a dual education in engineering and computer science and more than eighteen years of experience in hardware engineering, firmware development, and FPGA design. His background included a strong patent portfolio and management experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams through early development to product delivery. 

Opening Berlin for an Italian Artisan Food Brand
Food & Beverage

Opening Berlin for an Italian Artisan Food Brand

It was not just about the site-management experience. Launch experience was equally as important for the desired outcome. The successful candidate had over twenty years’ experience in structured food service environments, opened more than forty restaurant locations, managed approximately one hundred staff in multi-manager teams, and held area-level accountability within international food brands. He was based in Berlin and knew the European brand frameworks that require operational discipline and strong presentation standards.

Dual-Market HR Partnership for a Global Coatings Manufacturer Across the Netherlands and Belgium
Manufacturing

Dual-Market HR Partnership for a Global Coatings Manufacturer Across the Netherlands and Belgium

The candidate had more than 6 years of HR experience in the Netherlands, including hands-on experience with Belgian employment requirements, which was gained through cross-border collaboration with Belgian colleagues. At her previous organization she had overseen the Netherlands rollout of a global shared-service migration, including re-engineering local processes, ensuring stakeholder alignment and training managers on new procedures. She advised on all aspects of employment relations, including dismissals, performance management, sickness absence, works council interaction, and employment investigations. Throughout her career, she worked with Workday and SAP SuccessFactors and was based in the cluster’s main area of operations.

A Confidential CISO Search for a Pan-European Postal Joint Venture with Four-Region Security Scope
eCommerce

A Confidential CISO Search for a Pan-European Postal Joint Venture with Four-Region Security Scope

The executive spent his career in information security with regulated European financial institutions, building governance frameworks and security programs aligned to DORA, PCI-DSS, NIS2, GDPR, and PSD2. He had established and operated outsourced SOC operations according to MITRE ATT&CK, led incident response at institutional scale and interfaced directly with French financial regulators such as ANSSI, CNIL, ACPR, and AMF. His career has included positions in European, UK and international operations and he has the cross-regional coordination and board-level communication experience the role required. His professional motivation was directly related to the mission: building and strengthening security foundations across a complex, multi-region platform.

CFO Succession at a National Freight Organization
Transportation & Logistics

CFO Succession at a National Freight Organization

The new executive had built his career in transportation and logistics with experience in asset-based trucking, owner-operator models, and agent-based freight brokerage. He had more than ten years of experience leading cross-functional teams in finance, operations, IT, and HR; had direct P&L responsibility; and built new lines of business from scratch, including a domestic brokerage operation that he launched and scaled from inception. His working knowledge of the owner-operator model gave him the operational context to understand the business from the inside, not just the financial structure. 

Securing Operational Leadership for a Rapidly Growing Idaho Real Estate Developer
Real Estate

Securing Operational Leadership for a Rapidly Growing Idaho Real Estate Developer

The hired executive has almost nine years of EOS Integrator experience, including one stretch where he grew the company from $8 million to more than $40 million in eight years. He had led and integrated two acquisitions, built service lines to the point where they accounted for almost half of overall company profit, and created a global sales and distribution footprint that supported a successful company exit. Before that, he built a premium distribution business and forged national partnerships through a period of significant market volatility. He was locally based, held a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, and his operational assessments showed a strong fit for the demands of the Visionary-Integrator dynamic.